What is this weird pink blob on my rocks and coral

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hey guys I’ve been having a few issues with my tank these last few weeks I’ve noticed i have some weird pink blob on my rocks here and there mostly every rock has atleast one now i noticed it on my hammer head corals stems i have some pictures of i poked out with my tweezers but they basically just broke up into goo

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It could be flatworms, do you dip your corals before putting them in your system?
I’m fairly new to reefing didn’t know about dipping corals till recently but if it was flag worms they’d move around no?
 

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They do but really slowly. I have seen them completely cover a frogspawn and were invisible to the naked eye.
Do you ever see the blobs on the glass?
 
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They do but really slowly. I have seen them completely cover a frogspawn and were invisible to the naked eye.
Do you ever see the blobs on the glass?
No i haven’t seen them move or on glass mostly in holes of rocks and on my hammer
 
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If they're not moving at all they're probably just sponges of some sort. Definitely keep your eye on them though just in case. GL.
Same spot for days should i remove the head and clean it
 

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Regardless of whether they've moved, they look like flatworms to me.
 
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Regardless of whether they've moved, they look like flatworms to me.
hmm flat worms come in pink? how would i go about getting rid of this? i only got like 3-5 of them all in the same spots for days now growing
 

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Easy solution...scrub the base if theyre polyclads theyll come off...
 
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